As You Like It: Act 2, Scene 2

2-3. some villains of my court / Are of consent and sufferance in this:i.e., some villains of my court have connived at this and allowed it to happen. Here Duke Frederick displays his characteristic paranoia; he can't imagine that his daughter would run away simply because he has been abusive and exiled her best friend.

2It cannot be: some villains of my court3Are of consent and sufferance in this.

First Lord4I cannot hear of any that did see her.5The ladies, her attendants of her chamber,6Saw her abed, and in the morning early7They found the bed untreasured of their mistress.

8My lord, the roynish clown, at whom so oft9Your grace was wont to laugh, is also missing.10Hisperia, the princess' gentlewoman,11Confesses that she secretly o'erheard12Your daughter and her cousin much commend

13. parts and graces: talents and accomplishments.

13The parts and graces of the wrestler14That did but lately foil the sinewy Charles;15And she believes, wherever they are gone,16That youth is surely in their company.

DUKE FREDERICK17Send to his brother; fetch that gallant hither;18If he be absent, bring his brother to me;